Extra Material Unit 3

Try to relax about the exam. Meanwhile, here is some extra work for you to practice.
-click here if  you want some extra activities on each of the lessons on unit 3 (remember we did not cover lesson 3C)
-click here if you want some extra vocabulary and grammar (with answers)
-click here if you want to practice the progress test from unit 3 and then click here to get the key.

December exams

Reading+Listening+Writing Tuesday 15th December 2009

Orals (check schedule here) Thursdays 10th and 17th December 2009

3D A Trip to India

-We reviewed some travel vocabulary and we did a listening on Delhi and some T/F  activities as follow up.
-The grammar point was asking for and making recommendations and students practiced the activities on pages 30-31 while describing their home city or town. We also focused on intonation.
-After the break we practiced giving and receiving recommendations with Justin.
Homework:  write a composition giving a friend recommendations on what to do and what not to do while visiting your favourite place.

Unit 3B Lonely Planet

Dear, well done!!!

You have survived lesson 3B and Thanksgiving videos (funky turkey included). Please visit the general blog for Thanksgiving material (click here)
In case you are interesed this is the link to the lonely planet webpage: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Last week we covered unit 3B and learnt about the Wheelers and how they came up  with the idea of producing travel guidebooks.

3A, Thursday's class

On Thursday we finished unit 3A.
-we revised some phrasal verbs in small group doing an oral activity
-we corrected "help with grammar" page 25
-we practiced entonation and the differences in pronunciation when using the PPS(Present Perfect Simple) and the PS (Past Simple).

After the break we worked on the song Viva la Vida by Coldplay. Visit the general blog for a copy of the activity and a new song here.

Lesson 3A (Tuesday 17th November 2009)

In the one hour session before Justin came to our class we started by listening again to Roxana Saberi's text and correcting the questions.

Then we had a taste of phrasal verbs with the first page of unit 3 where students did activities 1 and 2 including the listening by Sam and Cintia.

Homework: help with grammar unit 3A.

JUSTIN: here is a copy of the material Justin used in class yesterday.

This week's work

On Tuesday we finally finished unit 2. We covered lesson 2D and work on showing concern, giving and responding to advice (we focused on intonation)

We also had a look at notices and practice in class. Students had to leave a notice in the blog board (click ) for homework. I handed out some photocopies on the topics, if you are interested and did not come to class, please ask for one.

On Thursday we started with a listening practice on journalist Roxana Saberi (click here for more information) and then students had 40 minutes to complete the progress test for unit 2.

After an early break we worked on the song "You can't hurry love", the lyrics are at the end of the book and we did an activity where studets had to choose between two words and underline the one they listened to. We also had a look at a karaoke version (check general blog)
Have a nice weekend.